Rules and Regulations

Following is the code of conduct for individual users of the trails.

1. Be Courteous: This is a multi-user trail system. All trail users should be respectful of other users, regardless of their mode of travel, speed, or level of skill. Maintain a safe and controlled speed at all times. Be especially alert to users with special needs.

2. Keep to the Right and Pass on the Left: Always stay to the right as you use the trails. Pass others going in your direction on their left. Look ahead and behind to make sure that your lane is clear before you go out and around the other users. Pass with ample separation. Do not move back to the right until you have safely gained distance and speed on the other users. Faster traffic should always yield to slower and oncoming traffic.

3. Give an Audible Signal when Passing: All users should be courteous and give a clear warning signal when approaching from behind. This signal may be produced by voice, bell or soft horn. Give others ample time to respond. Voice signals might include “Passing on your left!”

4. Do not Block the Trail: When in a group, including your pets, use not more than half the trail width, so as not to block the flow of other users. If users approach your group from either direction, form a single line or stop and move to the far right edge of the trail or off the trail to allow safe passage by these users.

5. Obey Signage: Always stop for traffic at roadways and intersections! When entering or crossing the trail at trailhead or other uncontrolled intersections, yield to traffic already using the trail.

6. Adhere to Trail Hours: Hours of operation were established for a reason: SAFETY! The trails are open dawn to dusk, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Use after hours is prohibited.

7. Be Alert: Do not use this Trail under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

8. Clean up Your Litter: Please keep the trails clean and neat for other users to enjoy. Please clean up after your pets. Pet clean up bags are available at the Depot. Pick up whatever someone else may have left on the trails and place trash is receptacle.

9. Keep Pets on Leashes: All pets must be kept on short, secure and tethered leashes at all times. Keep pets under your immediate control and off of adjacent private property.

10. Camp Fires Not Permitted: Fires, for any purpose, are prohibited within the Cardinal Greenways trail system. Any person caught lighting a fire for any purpose will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

11. Prohibited Uses of the Trail: Motorized vehicles, including snowmobiles and ATV’s are prohibited from use on the trails, except for vehicles belonging to or authorized by Cardinal Greenways, which will be appropriately identified, or for emergency vehicles. Hunting from the trails or from other property managed by Cardinal Greenways is strictly prohibited and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

12. Show Respect: Respect the privacy of adjacent landowners and do not enter their property for any purpose. Many native plants and wildflowers grow along the trails. Please don’t pick, trample or disturb them. Graffiti or damage to trail property costs money to repair and those responsible for defacing or damaging trail property will be prosecuted.

***If you see someone violating any of these rules, please inform the trail user of the rules, if appropriate, or notify the Greenway staff so that they can address the situation appropriately.

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